Whether you’re working on a local collective impact initiative or a national public-private partnership; whether you’re a practitioner or a researcher; whether you’re looking for basics or a detailed look at a particular topic, our Resource Library can help you find the information and tools you need for your cross-sector thinking and practice. The Library — which includes resources from research organizations, advisory groups, training organizations, academic centers and journals, and other sources — spans issue areas, sectors, and partnership types.
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There are a number of academic courses, programs, and certificates offered in the United States in which cross-sector collaboration is a major theme. We hope this list will be useful for educators who are interested in how this topic is being taught at universities across the country…
In this paper, Living Cities offers “a strategic framework for cross-sector partnerships including describing and defining the traits that make up a strong foundation, factors that influence success, and behaviors of high-impact efforts. In addition to the theory, the paper steeps these ideas in four…
This landmark SSIR article introduced the concept of collective impact and its five conditions of collective success. “Collaboration is nothing new. The social sector is filled with examples of partnerships, networks, and other types of joint efforts. But collective impact initiatives are distinctly different. Unlike…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross-sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’…
“This report focuses specifically on a cross-sector collaborative effort to significantly reduce traffic congestion in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. The organizers of the program concluded that a collaborative, multi-modal approach was crucial to making real headway on a longstanding, costly, nearly intractable…
This article highlights lessons learned from a session at the International Data Responsibility Conference about the potential and value of data collaboratives. “Several of society’s greatest challenges — from climate change to poverty — require greater access to big (but not always open) data sets,…
“As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of opening governance by organizing and disseminating its learnings, the GovLab Selected Readings series provides an annotated and curated collection of recommended works on key opening governance topics. In this edition,…
“Agreeing on a common agenda is one of the chief tenets of collective impact — and one of the prerequisites for moving collaboration forward,” write the authors of this Nonprofit Quarterly contribution. “However, our experience working with collective impact initiatives and other similar networks suggests…
“Admittedly, partnerships between companies and government are difficult. However, if we are to address the tremendous challenges facing voters at the scale and speed these issues demand, companies must work in partnership with government to deliver sustainable results,” writes Deirdre White, CEO of PYXERA Global,…
This article from Government Executive discusses an IBM Center for the Business of Government report that examines “collaboration within the context of homeless policy networks … While this report specifically investigates the role of leading in continuum of care (CoC) homeless programs and the leadership…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher In this contribution to SSIR, 100Kin10 Co-founder and Executive Director Talia Milgrom-Elcott discusses networked impact, an emerging model for social change, and offers five key principles for such efforts.
“Accenture surveyed nearly 800 public service technology leaders, in nine countries, to find out how they are currently using intelligent technologies such as advanced analytics, biometrics, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. We also sought to understand their ambitions for using these technologies in…
“Five years ago, an article by FSG’s John Kania and Mark Kramer sparked a nationwide wave of interest in collective impact—a new model of collaboration among public, private, and nonprofit actors that emphasizes a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and…
✴︎ Available only with an SSIR subscription “Participants in a large, complex collaboration can build a capacity for finding common ground—and it doesn’t have to take years,” promises this SSIR article that delves into trust in cross-sector partnerships. “Creating the formal structures that make up…
In this article from The Collective Impact Forum, Emily Wexler offers advice for funders seeking to “spur collective action among the organizations they support.” She writes, “While funders might like to see more collaboration among their grantees, the reality is that too many non-profits lack…